Retired US downhill skier Bode Miller decided a change of scenery was needed after a tumultuous year in which he experienced tragic death of his toddler daughter, birth of a son and w expected arrival of twin boys this fall. So 41-year-old six-medal Olympic champion and his pregnant wife, Morgan, heed to Montana mountains with four children in tow to settle into a new home at Big Sky Resort rth of Yellowstone National Park. re, he plans to give his California-raised children a modernized taste of his childhood in rrn New Hampshire, where he and his hippie parents lived in a home without running water or electricity.

“After losing Emmie, we definitely reflected on how we were raising our kids,” Miller told Associated Press in a recent interview. “We felt like re was eugh missing from our experience and ir upbringing in Sourn California that we needed to look at or options.”

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Things changed since Bode's daughter's death

Emeline Miller drowned in a backyard pool in June 2018 after she slipped out back door of a neighbor’s house that 19-month-old girl and her mor were visiting outside Los Angeles. Four months later, as Bode and Morgan Miller dealt with ir grief, ir son Easton was born and joined family that alrey included ar girl and two boys. Miller said he spent time after his daughter’s death questioning what he could have done differently, and n he sharpened his focus on his or children. Drawing from his childhood in Franconia, New Hampshire, he concluded y needed to move closer to nature and live in a small community to bond as a family and instill values like independence, self-reliance, and grit. With twins due in vember, Miller decided time was right.

“When you get a true sense of possible shortness of life — body kws what’s around corner — it’s t something you want to put off,” Miller said. “It changed a bit our intensity of how we deal with our time and our family and our priorities.” Morgan Miller has said family keeps Emeline with m by sharing memories and imagining having her with m, and that she wants to make sure ir children are getting best of ir parents and out of life. “It’s a battle every day to get up out of bed,” she told NBC’s Today in August. “But to see m and see joy through ir eyes and to live vicariously through all of ir daily experiences makes each day just a little bit easier.”

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family's mountain-mainland balance

family plans to split ir time throughout year between ir new home in Montana and ir current home in Coto de Caza, an upscale Los Angeles suburb. In Montana, Bode Miller will have a new role as face of sprawling Big Sky Resort, in show of 11,166-foot (3,403-meter) Lone Peak about 25 miles (40 kilometers) rth of Yellowstone. Communities scattered across slopes include Yellowstone Club, an exclusive resort for ultra-rich. Millers will live in nearby Spanish Peaks, ar upscale development. Bode Miller will act as Big Sky’s brand ambassor, working on its ski programming, running camps and helping develop booming ski area. He and Morgan, a former professional volleyball player, also plan to continue ir campaign to educate parents about water safety for young children.

“It was a horrible experience, losing a child,” Bode Miller said. “ loss was brutal, but we have an amazing family, and we have a unique ability to really live a spectacular life and move forward, and also to show each or and show rest of world what that healing process can look like.”

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More about Bode Miller

Bode Miller is most decorated male skier in U.S. history with 33 World Cup wins, two overall titles, four world championships and six Olympic medals. He built a reputation as a brash risk-taker who enthralled audiences that would tune in just to see wher he’d win or crash trying. His 19-year professional skiing career ended with a crash in 2015 world championships in Beaver Creek, Coloro, that severed his hamstring tendon. He formally retired in 2017. w, nearly four years after that race, his time on slopes is spent mostly with his 11-year-old daughter, his 6-year-old son and his 4-year-old son, who is just learning how to ski. Bode Miller said he enjoys skiing as much as ever, but he harbors thoughts of a comeback.

“I’m pretty gl to have it behind me, honestly,” he said. “I feel like it was a great phase, but I’m definitely past it and don’t really have any desire to do it again or look back on it.”

Bode Miller said he’ll always be involved in downhill skiing because he loves sport and people in it, but his long-term plans are unclear. He tried his hand at brocasting during 2018 Winter Olympics, but he was panned for his motone delivery and h to apologize for suggesting that ar skier’s decline may have been caused by her getting married. Miller’s t closing door on brocasting but ackwledged he’d have to do it more regularly to get better.

“It can’t be once every four years for Olympics,” he said. “That didn’t make sense to me. I don’t think I would ever really improve doing it that way.”

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(With inputs from AP)